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"I need to step it up about five notches, -stat-," my friend texted, obviously frustrated about trying on bikinis for an upcoming two-week Maui vacation. She wanted fat loss -fast- without deprivation, hunger, a ridiculous fad diet, or other extreme measures. Over my nearly three decades working with celebrities and other A-listers who must become lean quickly for a movie role or other career opportunity,...
June 8, 2015
Although there is no question that we should all set goals meant to improve our health, such goals, though, need to be realistic, measurable and achievable. Oftentimes, however, people set goals that will likely end in failure - sometimes, it may not even be humanly possible, given the circumstances, to complete them. Having said that, "unrealistic" is NOT (at least in this article) synonymous with...
June 5, 2015
Before I go to the grocery store, I usually have a list of everything I need to purchase for the week. If I don't, my grocery bill will be double the amount I intended it to be. Why? - Because I will get sucked into purchasing grocery and household items based on their outer appearance. Marketplace grocery and household items are contained in very attractive packages. Take cheese for example. As soon...
June 4, 2015
“I wasn’t even hungry,” my friend confessed recently. “I had a stressful morning, my coworker brought in hot cinnamon buns, and their waft become too hard to resist.” - Hunger rarely provides motivation to snack. Like my friend, you’re stressed, bored, emotionally unfulfilled, or otherwise want to drown your feelings in a bag of chips or a blondie brownie. While some experts argue snacking or “mini-meals”...
May 31, 2015
In the past few years, there has been a huge increase in the variety and availability of gluten free food choices. Most grocery store chains now devote an entire aisle to "health foods" and consumers will find many gluten free choices there. Lately, I've had clients without celiac disease or gluten intolerance ask whether they should go on a gluten free diet to improve their health. The emergence of...
May 19, 2015
You've likely encountered them in spades along your journey: friends, family, and coworkers who covertly or overtly attempt to sabotage your fat loss efforts. One thing’s for certain: they inevitably will appear, usually during your weakest, most vulnerable moments. Save for a few psychologically, um, challenged folks, I don’t think most people are evil. Regardless, for whatever deluded or other misguided...
May 18, 2015
In spite of the fact that we collectively know more about health issues than at any other time in history, it can also be said that most people today are more confused about what constitutes definitive/conclusive health knowledge than at other times in history. To put it more bluntly, the huge number of discoveries, epiphanies and accomplishments of modern times, far from necessarily making people...
May 12, 2015
It's a wonder some people don't get whiplash by trying to keep up with the latest findings regarding the many controversial or unsettled health issues in the news. Sometimes the uncertainty arises from changing circumstances, new findings through health studies/surveys, public appeals or demonstrations (most often carried out these days through social media and Internet discussion forums), laws or...
May 5, 2015
Food addiction is when you eat for a state change, and keep eating in an obsessive way in the face of harm from it. I’ve written about my own struggle with food addiction in my new book -The Hormone Reset Diet- and in my -last blog- on food addiction. I outlined the ways that “Big Food” hooks you into food addiction and conditioned overeating through the targeted design of foods that combine sugar,...
April 6, 2015
Most of us have a wonderful relationship with food. Beyond eating for survival, we enjoy food in moderation and know that it brings us nutrition, joy, and health. For some people, though, food is an obsession that dominates their life. Food addiction—a cluster of chemical dependencies that leads to a loss of control over food—can wreak havoc. In many respects, the behavior of food addicts is similar...
March 30, 2015
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